TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

WINEMAKING

The individual lots were handled in a traditional manner; destemming, a warm, plunged fermentation, extended skin maceration, pressing, and then a secondary malolactic fermentation. The separate wines were then run to a mixture of new and seasoned French oak barrels for 15 months’ maturation, before blending, egg-white fining and then bottling in July 2012.

VINEYARDS

ORIGIN

Vineyard partners Michael Morris and Peter Cowley named Bullnose after an early Morris Cowley car, nicknamed Bullnose due to its distinctive radiator. The bull emblem that appears on the label is drawn from the car’s radiator crest.

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